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    The habit of inductive inference produces the idea of necessary connection

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    • 1.Custom or habit of making inductive inferences gives rise to a feeling of determination to make that inductive inference
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    • 2.The feeling of determination to make the inductive inference gives rise to the idea of necessary connection
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    • 1.The idea of necessary connection, if it existed, would require the impression to precede and cause the idea, not merely accompany habitual inference.
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    • 2.A feeling of determination to infer is a psychological compulsion in the mind, not a perceived power or necessity in the objects themselves.
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    • 3.Hume's own Copy Principle demands that ideas derive from impressions of external objects, yet no such impression of necessity in objects is ever produced by habit.
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    • 1.Reid argues that the natural belief in causation is an original, non-inferential principle of common sense, not a product of accumulated habit.
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    • 2.If necessary connection were merely the product of repeated experience, then a single observed causal sequence would produce no idea of necessity, yet agents form immediate causal judgments on first encounters.
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    Thus, the custom or habit to make the inductive inference not only gives rise to a new idea of not yet observed instances resembling the instances we have already observed, it also produces a feeling of determination to make the very inductive inference in question. This feeling of determination, in turn, gives rise to a further new idea, the idea of necessary connexion, which has no resemblance whatsoever with anything we have observed. It is derived from an “impression of reflection” (an inter
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